The Cal Neva Lodge sat right on the border between California and Nevada, straddling the state line at Lake Tahoe. In the summer…
The Copa Room at the Sands Hotel was the most prestigious venue in Las Vegas. In 1965, if you performed there, you’d made…
Johnny Carson was laughing with his guest when the Vietnam veteran suddenly stopped talking mid-sentence and started sobbing uncontrollably on live television. What…
December 16th, 1944. Our den forest, Belgium. The snow is falling hard. The sky is a dull iron gray and visibility is nearly…
June 6th, 1944,0500 hours. A fortified bunker carved into the cliffs of Normandy overlooking the churning gray expanse of the English Channel. The…
June 1944, Normandy, France. The morning mist hung low over the hedgeros, clinging to the scorched earthlike smoke that refused to rise. The…
France, August 1944. The afternoon sky hangs heavy with the smell of diesel and burned rubber. Across a shallow valley near the village…
August 13th, 1945. Los Alamos, New Mexico. The desert night is unnervingly quiet. Inside a low windowless building, men in khaki overalls move…
December 1941, Moscow. The temperature has dropped to minus 38° C. Cold enough to freeze hydraulic fluid and aircraft landing gear within minutes.…
At 14:30 on January 8th, 1945, Technical Sergeant Russell Dunham crouched in kneedeep snow at the base of Hill 616 near Kaisersburg, France,…